Material Information
- Title:
- Herding Cats, Bounding Spirit Spiritualism, Public Ritual and Spectral Science in Cassadaga, Florida
- Physical Description:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Creator:
- Robitaille, Dylan
- Publisher:
- New College of Florida
- Place of Publication:
- Sarasota, Fla.
- Publication Date:
- 2014
Thesis/Dissertation Information
- Degree:
- Bachelor's ( B.A.)
- Degree Grantor:
- New College of Florida
- Degree Divisions:
- Social Sciences
- Area of Concentration:
- Anthropology
Subjects
- Genre:
- bibliography ( marcgt )
theses ( marcgt ) government publication (state, provincial, territorial, dependent) ( marcgt ) born-digital ( sobekcm ) Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Notes
- Abstract:
- This ethnography is the culmination of fieldwork conducted at Cassadaga Spiritualist
Camp in Volusia County, FL - a historic intentional religious community centered around
mediumship services, Spiritualism, and tourism. Alongside informal interviews, this project
follows the experience of the ethnographer in attending religious services, tours, and classes.
The camp is explored as shifting, polyvocal and heterogeneous - reflecting Spiritualism’s
emphasis on the individual seeker, but problematizing group cohesion. Arrival narratives and
public rituals are examined as attempts to address various threats, anomalies and disruptions -
they (re)marry entangled constructions of individual, place and Spirit and resolve contested
discourses of community, cosmology and religious practice
- Statement of Responsibility:
- by Dylan Robitaille
- Thesis:
- Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 2014
- General Note:
- RESTRICTED TO NCF STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY, AND ON-CAMPUS USE
- Bibliography:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- General Note:
- This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. The New College of Florida Libraries, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.
- General Note:
- Faculty Sponsor: Vesperi, Maria
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- New College of Florida
- Holding Location:
- New College of Florida
- Rights Management:
- Applicable rights reserved.
- Classification:
- S.T. 2014 R635
- System ID:
- AA00024798:00001
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